February 2016 – Rivet Networks, the new owners of the Killer Wireless technology, was talking about their new networking product. The Killer Wireless technology has been updated to support the 802.11ac (killer wireless-ac 1535) standard and the same packet management technology has been integrated into their Killer Ethernet (E2400) product. The combination networking chip, supporting…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Dennis Martin from Demartek described the evolving storage networks. As data volumes grow, the underlying servers and storage have to grow to accommodate the larger data flows. In general, servers are improving to address the needs for higher bandwidth and more virtualization. The larger number of…
October 11, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—The Open Control Architecture Alliance is releasing a new open source specification to allow greater control interoperability in digital audio systems. Three years in the making, the new standard follows the move of A-V workflows from analog to digital and an IT infrastructure. The other work on…
October 10, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—A panel looked at the ongoing transition from analog to digital and the infrastructure changes needed to move to a fully digital workflow. Marty Sacks from the Telos Alliance moderated the panel and the panelists were Rich Zweibel from dsc, Terry Holton from Yamaha, and Stephen Lederbergen…
May 2014, Internet of Things Conference, Santa Clara, CA—We talked with Uday Mudoi from Vitesse about the company and their products. They are falling back on their years of experience in Ethernet products to change the company focus. The drivers are in the growing acceptance of FbE in enterprise networks. Although the internals of the…
May 1, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Scott Cassell from Comcast described the underlying trends in enterprise networks, and they are not SDN or cloud. Although the big datacenters are all moving forward to greater virtualization, the enterprise users are just trying to get work done. The significant trends impacting the enterprise network solutions…
May 1, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John D’Ambrosia from Dell envisioned the paths leading to a TbE network. The efforts in defining the next-generation transport technologies is starting now. Speed will always exist as a limiting factor in all electronics. For networks, the latest efforts are to get to 400GbE, even though many…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara,CA—Alan Weckel from the Dell’Oro Group presented an overview of the Ethernet market. Their market research covers port shipments and market forecasts for Ethernet switch and routing as well as SAN, server, and WLAN equipment markets. Service providers and small and medium business (<200 wired devices) are fairly…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Frank Straka from Panduit described the changes in specifications and technologies to permit the use of copper in the datacenter at speeds above 1G. The extended capabilities for the wires permits applications to 10G and 40G. Copper base-T products provide the lowest cost technologies and at speeds…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Shahar Feldman from Microsemi addressed the issues of power and heat in Ethernet networks. The standards for power over Ethernet allow for fairly significant levels of power delivery over the same wires as the data and control lines. At issue is the need for heat and thermal…